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A Day in the Life

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Indirect Purchasing team in Milan. As an Indirect Sourcing Manager, you will develop and implement sourcing strategies for key categories, working in close cooperation with our commercial divisions and zone teams. In this high-visibility role, you will lead and mentor one buyer, driving our performance and contributing to L’Oréal Italy's success.

• Strategy & Optimization: Implement global and zone category strategies in the Italian market. You will drive cost and value optimization through market analysis, leading negotiations, and managing RFPs.
• Supplier & Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact between the business and suppliers. You will conduct regular business reviews, manage supplier relationships, and negotiate high-impact contracts to ensure compliance and performance.
• Innovation & Sustainability: Support the implementation of innovative tools and AI, while embedding our sustainability framework into indirect categories. You will be responsible for tracking KPIs and engaging suppliers in our L'Oréal for the Future journey.
• Risk & Compliance: Identify and manage sourcing risks, ensuring all practices meet legal requirements and internal policies, and report findings to local and global leadership.

We Are Looking For

You are a strategic and entrepreneurial sourcing professional with a strong team spirit and technical knowledge. You are adept at influencing the business and thrive in a highly collaborative environment.

• You have a solid background in sourcing and procurement, with experience managing categories like Retail and Promotions (POS, print, co-packing) being a plus.
• Highly experienced in leading negotiations, managing supplier relationships, and implementing sourcing best practices.
• You possess strong financial acumen, excellent project management skills, and a good understanding of business and stakeholder needs.
• Proficient in both Italian and English, with strong communication and presentation abilities.
• An innovative, hands-on leader, curious and adept at thinking "out of the box."

What’s In It For You

• A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!).
• Real responsibility from day 1, there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal.
• An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
• A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal/environmental causes to make a concrete difference.

Who We Are

L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €42 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet.

Our daring Operations team of thousands of exceptional minds don’t just work on complex challenges; They help create sustainable and inclusive beauty alongside our partners by crafting, innovating, sourcing, producing, and delivering millions of products and services that touch every corner of the globe.

We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.